The ASU annual programming competition is brought to you by Women in Computer Science ( WCS ) and serves as a fun opportunity to prove your mettle against fellow ASU students.

ASU 2009 programming competition is organized by WCS.

2009 Results

The dust has cleared, and the rankings from the 2009 competition are as follows:

  1. Decrypter: Rui Hai Fang, Salvador Salazar, Reza Zafarani
  2. Conundrum: Barry Lumpkin, Patricia Hurd
  3. Spectrum: Colin Juillard
  4. AC Devils: Jin Zhang
  5. For Great Justice: Andrew Kelley
  6. Darklord: Sai Denduluri
  7. JVM: Yuxing Yao, Bo Li
  8. Shivam: Shivam Gupta
  9. LAG: Eddie Raleigh
  10. 404-Not Found: Ryan Scott, Jenny Hastings, Aaron Hathaway
  11. Garmin Dynamics: Nick Karavakis, Jennifer Harrison, Farooq Khera

A more detailed list of rankings including the scores of each team can be viewed here.
Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all participants for giving it their best. We look forward to seeing you at next year's competition.

2009 Problem Set
2009 Test Cases

Information

Competition Date & Time: March 21, 2009, 9 AM - 1 PM
Pizza Party: 1pm, Award Ceremony: 1:30pm
Location: BYENG 214

Prizes: iPod, cash prizes, software, and more!
Prizes for: top teams, best freshman, best sophomore, and best female!
Raffle: an iPod nano will be raffled off among the participants!
Team sizes: 1 to 3 students (max of 1 grad student per team)
Languages: Java, C, C++, VB.Net, C#

Prizes

1st: An iPod nano for each team member, $300 cash for the team to split, Microsoft items
2nd: Microsoft Digital Media Keyboards, $150 cash for the team to split, Microsoft items
3rd: Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
4th: Microsoft Life Cams
5th: Google web cams
6th: Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse
7th: Google wireless mouse
8th: Microsoft xbox games
9th: Rainbow Studio games
and more prizes, more Google items, Microsoft items, Rainbow Studio items...
and also prizes for Top Freshman, Top Sophomore, Top Female...

Registration

Registration starts March 2nd to 19th, 2009.
Register at: Brickyard Artisan Court foyer, there will be a table set up with WCS students who can register you.
Also Register at: (between March 2nd to March 6th, and between March 16th and March 19th)

BYENG 520 on Mon/Wed from 3:30-5:00 pm
BYENG 518 on Tue/Thu from 3:00-5:00 pm

Fee: $15 per a team

Team size: Teams may include 1 to 3 ASU students, but no more than one graduate student per team.

You will receive a receipt when you register -- do not lose your receipt! You will need to bring it with your student IDs on the day of the competition.

The first 40 people to register will receive goody bags and T-shirts.
Every participant is invited to have fun at the Pizza Party.

Everyone is welcomed to submit copies of their resumes which will be given to sponsors that request student resumes.

FORMS:
Registration Form
Information Packet

Pictures

Photos from the competition:


Sponsors

Observe world-shaking charity! Champions of just causes around the world, these savvy philanthropists have lent their shining monetary bulk to the ASU programming competition:
SRP
Google
Microsoft
General Dynamics
Rainbow Studios
WCS alumni

History

The history of the competition is something many have heard in hushed tone about the flickering light of a failing CRT, but here you may peruse genuine documents on the storied event's past:

Site last updated April 1st, 2009